Above The Law

Apparently, our elected officials now think they are above the law. Not that this is something new. Witness Cynthia McKinney slapping a capitol police officer earlier this year, then screaming "racism" when she draws heat for it. Or Patrick Kennedy getting drunk, smashing his car up, and then yelling that he was on his way to a vote when the police were about to hit him with a breathalyzer.

Now, we have the legislative branch screaming about warrants being served by the FBI, or the executive branch, to get hyper-technical. Rep. William Jefferson is caught with $100,000 in hard cold cash. Literally. The FBI found it in his refrigerator.

I am glad to see the attorney general doing the right thing on this one. I think President Bush is showing yet again his true colors, by ordering the evidence sealed until the Constitutional issue can be settled. Why is there even an issue? Why would he even allow the temporary sealing of the evidence?

Every branch of government needs to be subjected to the rule of law. Why should a member's elected status exempt him or her from following the same laws as the rest of us?

It shouldn't. Plain and simple. However, our elected officials seem to think they are better than us. Elitism of the finest sort, and even our vaunted President appears to have fallen into the trap.

I really don't like anyone who looks down their nose at me.

Those of us who work for a living can't slap police officers. We can't get drunk. smash up our cars, and then get away with it. We can't accept bribes, and then scream about our constitutional rights being violated when we get caught. So what makes them better than us?

Lately, there seems to be a blatant disregard for the people by our elected representatives. The Senate and their immigration bill is just one of the more obvious examples. This business of hiding behind the offical color of office really chaps me. That's something that earmarks corruption. It earmarks a government that is no longer really governing with the consent of the governed.

Lest we forget: God gave us cerain unalienable rights. God gave us, not the government. The government exists at our pleasure, not the other way around. When it starts to shape up otherwise, we are in trouble.

Well, sound the alarm: We are officially in trouble.